Sundance has found a new home, or at least a second home, in New Mexico. Call the picture Bill Richardson and the Sundance Kid. With the states purchase of the 148-acre Cabot ranch, Los Luceros,  in …

From 1967 to 1977, a clutch of hardened former student protesters, led by an earnest journalist (Ulrike Meinhof), a charismatic thug (Andreas Baader) and a blonde ministers daughter (Gudrun Ensslin) held Germany hostage with bombings and …

So begins the operating assumption of Inglourious Basterds, a Holocaust film that thrusts the unthinkable on the audience by throwing it in their face and rewriting history with a flamethrower. The “Basterds,” as this melodramas hype …

Robert Stones new documentary, Earth Days, opens this week, as opponents of global warming seem to have found a new “scientific” truth to attack: the birth of Barack Obama in the United States. The closing film …

And you thought you knew Julia Child, the ageless cookbook author who giggled over French recipes on television for decades. In Julie & Julia, shes an American in Paris, defying the phallocratic French cuisine hierarchy to …

Utopia never looked so empty in the documentary California Company Town, which visits places that once were communities, many built around factories, and around once-shared hopes to create a new kind of society. Lee Anne Schmitts …

The Cove by Louie Psihoyos of Boulder Colorado stands out as an exemplary personal journey tale in what is now a longstanding genre of independent filmmaking. Ric OBarry was a trainer of dolphins, who brought us …

As Donald Rumsfeld liked to say, “There are known unknowns, and unknown unknowns.” Apply that to the secret preparations to invade Iraq -  and to the pieties pronounced for bringing Britain along in that invasion -  …

Years ago, Frank McCourt reflected on his success after his story of oppressive humiliating poverty became virtually eternal bestseller: “I taught for years and nobody paid me a scrap of attention, and then I write a …

You thought Carlsbad was in New Mexico? The original one is in Bohemia, in the Czech Republic, where the spa city once called Karlsbad is now Karlovy Vary. The citys annual film festival ended July 11th. …